Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — Page 6

THE HOUSE WITH THE EYES

HN the year 1895 Dr. John Wlndom, big, 28 and a bachelor, lived In apartments overlooking Jackson Park from the south. Dr. Wlndom was troubled. He thought some one was looking at him. Thought It? He knew it The doctor had turned hls largest room Into a library. It had one great window opening onto the park. It was at night after he lighted his library lamp that the curlops sensation that he was being stared at came over the physician. When he went Into the next toom the feeling passed off. He was a faervy fellow, the doctor, after a week of the thing ho began to get “creepy." Every night somebody’s eyes were going through and through him. It was either that or else he was losing hlB mental balance, and that Dr. Wlndom wouldn’t admit for a minute. He examined tho walls of the library, and thumped them hard. They were ■olid. There was no transom over the door leading into the hall, and there was a key in the lock that fitted perfectly. He went to the window. It was thirty feet from the ground. The nearest house In the line of sight was at Fifty seventh street, a mile and a half away. No Peeping Tom could be In a tree, for the trees had been cut down to make room for the fair buildings, and those planted since the exposition’s structures hud been razed were little more than saplings. Wlndom began taking nerve tonics. Then ho pulled himself together and quit. One night he looked from his library window far off into the blackness that hung over the north end of the park. He snw a faint light in one of the houses In far off Fifty-seventh

SHE ALMOST RAN INTO WINDOW.

street For some reason he Instantly connected the feeling that he was being watched with that light Dr. Windom left his apartments and struck across the park to Fifty-seventh street. On the north side of the street facing the pleasure ground was a block of brick residences. It was nearly midnight. The houses were as black as Calcutta's Hole. Windom paecd up and down for an hour. No light appeared. He started homeward, made a hundred yards, •topped and looked bach- Recent eiperiences had unstrung him. He saw •omethlug now that staggered him. From one of the houses light was streaming through two circular windows set in the same horizontal plane just under the roof. The appearance wa» thut of two great eyes staring redly out Into the blackness of the night. A heavy curtain began to descend over one window. It had the seeming of a big eyelid slowly closing. To the phyclan’s highly wrought imagination It seemed as though some monster of the night was giving him n leering wink. The light died from both windows. Windom mastered his nerves and went borne and to bed. In the morning he stood in front of the house once more. The windows were there and Windom noticed their unusual size, and that each was composed of little round panes set In metal sashes as are cathedral w indows. After that he went to the place often.,AU he could And out from the near-by tradesmen was that nn old man and his daughter lived in the house and kept no servants. “They have been there but a short time," said the grocer. The time being Axed, Windom discovered that It was but a few days prior to the night that he Arst felt that he was being stared at. One-half hour after midnight, Nov. 0, 1896, Dr. John Windom was returning from a visit to the bedside of a patient on Bverett avenue. An Irresistible Impulse made him walk toward the “house with the eyes.” “The eyes are shut,*' he muttered, as he stopped directly In front of the house. At this Instant the front door opened and a girl rushed out. Site almost ran into Windom. The flickering street lamp showed him a face. It was a beautiful face, but pale and tear-wet. Its owner might have seen nineteen years. At the sight of Windom the girl sprung back, frightened. Then, ns she saw his face, she cried: “Oh, It's you,” and, seizing his hand, she said: “Come.” Hlie led him swiftly up the stairs Into the hallway and thence up three flights of stairs into a great room. It was feebly lighted. Windom was dimly conscious that some huge object occupied s large part of the apartment Then everything else was sunk In the physl dsn, for on a lounge lay an old man gasping for breath, but with a convulsive Joy In bis face. “1 think my father Is dying,” wills-

pered the girl. "He had a stroke only a few minutes ago. I carried him to the couch.” A look told Wlndom that It was a case of paralysis. He took a flask of brandy and was about to apply It to tho old man’s lips. The stricken man looked at him with glittering eyes. “No brandy, ’’ he said; "one sight was stimulant enough. This night I have seen the men on Mars. Show him, Mary, lest he scoff—show hlml” An enthusiasm like that which lighted the countenance of the sufferer came Into the girl’s face. She turned a great chair about, sprang Into It lightly, and bending forward looked intently into a small tube. Wlndom turned from hls patient. The huge object by which the girl sat took form. It was a telescope with an objective thrice greater than the largest he had ever seen. “Show him, Mary." The girl sprang from the chair with a great wonder in her face. “Quick," she said. Half believing the whole thing a •dream, Wlndom took the chair and bent over the eyepiece of the telescope. Ills senses were staggered by what he saw. He was looking ui>on a world. A soft light suffused everything. He saw seas and mountains, even buildings, and then—men; yes, living men, minute as the life that is picked out of the water drop by the microscope, but still men. Wlndom felt benumbed. He turned to tho sufferer. "You have solved the problems of the universe,” he said. “Aye, so I have. I, Caleb Strong, crank, as the scientists call me. They made, forty-inch lenses that cost a million, and can’t see beyond the ends of their noses with them—the fools. I built that,” and his eyes looked at the telescope. “I made the multiple lense that science has scoffed at for ages Each lense does Its w r ork separately, but the results come Into one. There is no limit I can pick up a pin on the nethermost star.” There was a triumph In the man’s tone and face as he continued. “These small lenses had to be so joined that the light w T ould not Interrefleet. ‘lmpossible,’ said the wiseacres. I did It Two years ago Louis Gathmann just missed the secret. It is mine and there is the perfected work. “I know you, doctor. I owe you an explanation. I came here with my daughter Mary and built my telescope. The fools hereoltouts thought the objective was a window. I dared not look at a star at first for fear of disappointment For a mile and a half to the south the ground was open. I focused on tho light In your library. Small though the flame was, It answered my purpose, and by It I proved my theory of how to prevent Inter-reflection. Did I see you? Why, practically you were In this room with me. At times I made Mary look, though she shrank from It for the steady gaze hurt my old eyes. As she counted the reflections I adJustedwthe lenses, but at times her attention wandered from the light She has lived alone with me and shared my toll and privation, and she made a friend of you In your far-away library. When I knew I was right I changed the window lens to the roof. This night I have seen the men on Mars, and tomorrow, nay, to-day, the world " At that Instant the earth trembled and the building swayed. There was a crashing of glass and a rending of Iron. A section of the roof was crushed In and carried lenses and telescope to ruin. The shock gave the stricken man momentary strength. He raised himself from hls pillow. “Gone!” he said. Wlndom caught him as he fell backward. The secret had gone with Its owner. The Chicago evening papers of that day, Nov. 5, 1895, gave a scant halfcolumn account of the slight earthquake shock that early that morning had visited the southern section of the city. “The only property damage,” they said, "was the breaking of a hole In the roof of a Fifty-seventh street residence by the fall of a partition wall that rose above the building’s eaves." • • • Three years later a man and a woman were bending over a cradle in which was sleeping a baby boy. “Mary,” said the man, "ns a physician I am a firm believer In heredity. Who knows but that one day our boy may show to the world the men on Mars?’’—Chicago Record Herald.

Knew What She Wanted.

The late Albert Craney, long time proprietor of the hotel at West Point, used to tell many amusing stories of tho unsophlstlcatlon nnd Ignorance of some of the relatives of the cadets who visited there. Upon one occasion, when Mr. Craney was talking on the hotel porch with the then Secretary of War, Robert T. Lincoln, a rural-looking woman Interrupted thorn with the question: "Where’s the Epidemic building?” “The what?" said Mr. Craney. “The Epidemic building," she repeated. "She means the Academic building. Right across the plain, madam,” said Secretary Lincoln, Indicating tho way, and then he fled to hide hls mirth.— New York Press. We have noticed that at a celebration, at the stands where they sell things at high prices, you find signs to this effect: "Welcome, Visitors." When a man Is guilty, he talks too much about hls Innocence, and gets caught

REACHING TO PEKIN.

The New Mongolian Branch of the Trans-Siberian Kailroad. The report that the Russians are secretly building a railway from a point on the trans-Manchoorian line close to the Russo-Chiuese frontier, to Kalgan on the Great Wall, about 125 miles from Pekin, has caused something like a flutter In England. The discovery is said to have been made by a traveler who was making his way through the country in disguise, and communicated the Intelligence to an English newspaper. While at Kailar, a town situated on the river of the same name, about sixty-five miles from its junction with the Argun, one of the principal tributaries of the Amur, he saw a construction train with laborers and railway material moving away to the south on a newly constructed and roughly laid track. He at once came to tiie conclusion that what he saw had to do with a new and hitherto unheard of line of railway, and appears to have obtained information confirming ills conclusions. .Should this news prove to be correct, the fact that the Russian government has seriously undertaken this work is of great political and military significance. It was known at the time of the outbreak In China, in 1899, that the Russians had exploring parties out examining the country between Iviakhta, on the frontier line just south of Lake Baikal, and Kalgan, along the regular tea caravan track. Later it was understood that the route traced out was not entirely satisfactory, and that a more easterly one was to be sought on the western side of the Ivhingau chain of mountains, that divides Mongolia from Manchooria. Evidently such a route has been found, and the political situation in the far East, together with tin* military exigencies arising out ot it, has led the Russian government to hasten the construction of the .railway which is to bring I’ekin in direct connection with the Siberian line through Kalgan: The building of this railway makes Kailar, where it starts from the main Mam hoorian line, a point of great strategic importance, and we shall probably learn in time that it has become one of Russia’s principal military centers in Eastern Asia. From it troops can lie sent at short notice south or southeast, or called for, and both it and the railway to Kalgan might be considered beyond danger of attack, they being covered all along the east side by' the Khingan mountains, the passes over which will probably be held by the Russians. The distance from Kailar to Kalgan is about 050 miles, at least 500 miles shorter than the originally projected route from the Siberian line east of Lake Baikal, through Iviakhta and Urga. There is not likely to be any friction between Russia and England out ol this action on the part of Russia, England having divested herself of any right to protest by the Anglo-Rusaian convention of 1899 respecting all that part of China north of the great wall. Any trouble connected with it, if any, would be with Japan. An effort will be made to have the rails laid the whole distance by the end of the coming autumn.—New York Sun.

SHE FOUND THE SPOOL.

A Tale Pointing Out the Danger of Too Much Haate. One Washington household was thrown Into a state of confusion one morning last week. Mrs. Blank was seated at the sewing machine busily engaged In her work, but she found time to frequently shower her pet dog Bruiser with onucaßlng terms. Having just emptied a spool, she threw It to the dog at her feet. Bruiser grasped and, ns hls mistress thought, gulped down the spool. With a shriek, Mrs. Blank summoned the member of her household. They found her seated in the middle of the floor with the dog In her lap frantically, hut faithfully, trying to extract the spool which she told them she could plainly feel In the dog's throat. “What are you hll standing there for?” she cried. “Can’t you do something? Won’t you do something? See the poor thing Is choking to death! Look at his eyes! Help! help!” Naturally everybody wanted to help. The neighbors by this time bad expressed their willingness to assist, but when It came to the thing of actually passing her Idol over to others Mrs. Blnuti refused. She would not intrust her dog’s life Into other hands than her own, so she continued the attack with, a vigor which Bruiser endured with phenomenal vitality. Finally the little dog fell over from sheer exhaustion, which called forth more shrieks. For the first time Mrs. Blank's eyes left the dog’s throat. Ix>oklng around the room In desperation she saw the empty spool, which had rolled Into a corner Instead of Bruiser’s throat. Her stare, her gasp, her whole attitude, In fact, told the tale, and Immediately the group employed means by which the dog was resuscitated. Had Mrs. Blank continued her hunt for the spool la Bruiser's throat much longer the dog would have been minus hls larynx.—Washington Post. Too Grasping"l like to see people economical,” remarked Fllmslcus, “but when a man cuts hls stogies In two In the middle nnd gets ten smokes for five cents, as Tyte Phlst does, I think, by George, he’s a little too penurious to live!" We are never so forcibly convinced that the farmer should nht suffer for lack of farm hands, If the laws can aid him, as when we see a town fellow loafing In a hanrmock with a girl on a weak day. Iteelproclty is a good word: If you want friends, reciprocate.

FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN

ALEXANDRA’S KIND HEART, «r> WRITER In the St. James Budget has some pleasing anecdotes to tell illustrative of Queen Alexandra’s kindness toward animals, a feeling which she, happily, has the good sense as well as the authority to express in various practical and helpful ways. It was through her thoughtfulness that notices have been posted In many London omnibuses requesting passengers not to require the complete stoppage of the vehicle more often than is absolutely necessary, and thus to relieve the horses as much as possible of the tremendous strain of restarting. Her majesty has now turned her thoughts to the cab horses of London, and has had sent from her native country to London some specimens of a light stand which is commonly used In Copenhagen for supporting the horsebags of horses so that they may take their casual feed In greater comfort than is possible when the bag is suspended from their heads. These little trestle tables are extremely light and easily folded and stowed away under the seat of the cab when not in use.— Leslie’s Weekly. Value of Cheerfulness. If a man should be cheerful at home. It goes without saying that a wonurn should be. Whatever her cares or anxieties, the wife and: mother must make It part of her religion to live above them. What Is most prized In household economy is not a temperament which is gay by fits and starts, up today and down to-morrow, full of hilarity on occasions, and heavy as lead at other times, but an even serenity of soul which makes people at ease and happy under the roof. A home in which oue treads always on thin ice cannot be tolerated. A cheerful disposition will Influence Its possessor to make the best of existing circumstances, forget the discomforts of yesterday, and anticipate delightful things to-morrow. To live largely in the present, doing one’s best and trusting God, Is to maintain an almost unbroken cheeriuess of demeanor and of experience. A distinction may always be made between high spirits, the sanguine optimism which makes people gay to effervescence, and the equanimity which Is a good putflt for the common road. In choosing a life partner, either a man or a woman does wisely who seeks one whose habitual cheerfulness will fit him or her for good comradeship. Much of the lack of cheer which undermines home comfort may be laid to the score of Insufficient health. A dyspeptic sees the world as through a haze of indigo. Inability te assimilate food makes poor blood, poor blood means low vitality, and low vitality brings. In its wake, an absence of Joy and a presence of pain, which result in fretfulness and morbidness. A resort to the dentist or the doctor, a change of diet, an increased amount of exercise, more sleep, less worry, will often restore, to a Jaded mind and a wearied body, the lost sense of happy cheer, and make a whole family glad where they have been sorrowful.—Margaret E. Sangster in Success. Stylish French Tnrban.

" 1 ■*** * wfifth *-> y' Nothing ItfAcfyS'' more becom- r ** sf Ing can be sf found for /yy / summer wear '// for women Y ( \ blessed with / as abundance of hair than the pretty French turban. It Is not elaborate at all. White chiffon, black and white straw as binding, black velvet hows and Jet plus are used In this stylish model. Ironing Shirtwaists. If the shirtwaists are wanted very stiff, they should be thoroughly dried before starching; if only moderately so, about half dried. The closer the weave of the goods the thinner the starch .should he. The cuffs should be Ironed first and require an Iron as hot as can be used without scorching. BoxIrons are nicer for starched things than the ordinary flat-irons, ns, not having to touch the stove on their surface, they are cleaner, keep their heat longer and are not so liable to scorch. The latter, however, will do very well If they are kept scrupulously clean. Take a clean piece of rag and wet It, wiping over both sides of the cuff with It to prevent the Iron sticking. Iron first very lightly on the wrong side, then lightly on the. right; heavily on the wrong side, then heavily on the right. These seemingly trivial details arc Important, because the Iron will stick If applied heavily at once, and If the cuff la finished on the wrong side Instead of the right. It leaves a ridge Whore the edge of the cuff Is turned in.

Keep on Ironing till the cuffs and collar ate both perfectly dry. Never change an iron while doing a cuff. An iron must always be scrupulously .clean for starched pieces. Some people use bath brick and olive oil to clean them, but a rag dipped In kerosene does just as well, and this will also help to prevent the Iron from sticking. If there are frills to be goffered they should be done when half dry; all trimmings should be Ironed first t< n the wrong side.—The Delineator. Freedom for Girls. / W e are often told that over-fndulg-ebce Is one of the mistakes of the age in the treatment of children by their parents. Girls enjoy a new sense of freedom, which has been coining gradually for many years, perceptibly for the lflht half-dozen years. Our books, our journals; seem to be imbued with the spirit of freedom, and ns women force their way upward and onward the prevailing tendency Is toward beating down old customs and old habits. Under these circumstances it Is extremely difficult for the parents in some cases to strike a happy medium. Woe to the mother who only remembers her own childhood, and. forgetting the progress which is taking place in thought since those years along ago, desires to surround her girl with the close chaperonage which was deemed necessary In her own days. This mother is laying up for herself a store of friction whioh will be extremely trying. because she has omitted to take Into account the fact that in those other times there are other ways. Far be it from us to approve of the notion that chaperonage is superfluous. We believe that it is specially necessary to the young girl who is entering society; but the chaperonage requires to be exercised in a very tactful manner. One Woman’s Idea. A practical idea has been worked out by a woman who likes to have the whole window screened in summer, so that the snsh may be raised ordowered at will. It is a net screen that may be used with either inside or outside window shutters, that permits the window to be raised or lowered and that Is cheap, olenn and pretty. Plain white netting, 50 cents the piece of eight yards. It is double width, and one width is full enough for an ordinary window. For extra wide windows a width and a half will be required. It Is to be heAmed at both ends and gathered on brass rods adjusted at the top and bottom of each window. These rods should be good, strong, real brass; the yellow tin curtain rods sold for a few cents are not worth putting up. The nets should be “fulled” across and perfectly taut lengthwise. If properly hung, they will be quite fly-tight. The lower rod can be slipped off its hook for a few seconds whenever It is necessary to open or close outside shutters. Kkr Shampoo, Yolk of one egg. Rainwater, one pint. Rosemary spirits, one ounce. What you really need Is friction for the scalp. Massage would be the best system. The hair falls out for lack of strength and tone in the hair bulbs, and friction is the great cure for this condition. Shampo once a week. No, It does not follow that you will be bald because your father was. Health and Beauty. Feelings of heaviness and despondency vanish with the eating of fruit. Excess of meat will disorganize the system and uric acid will be stored up. But sharp fruit pulps come In contact with the flesh and the acids counteract each other, so that the body receives only benefit. Dryness of skin may sometimes be remedied by a daily application of Jaborandl. The tincture in twenty times its bulk of water Is a reliable lotion. The remedy Is of service when the dryness is due to deficient secretion. When the skin perishes because of Inability to assimilate its lymph food tho lotion does no good whatever. If the stomach Is deficient In gastric Juice so that the unused food lies there as a weight and presently sends toward the throat volumes of acrid gas, indicating a disagreeable phnse of indigestion, and, later, giving Its victim sick headache, then currant Juice should be taken. This will work upon the acids of the food, stimulate the stomach coats and compel the slow gastric Juice to do Its work. The evil gas will depart and the hendache will go by this natural medicine. The strained juice of either red or black currants stewed with but little sugar will answer the purpose well. Knitting Is nowadays recommended to sufferers from rheumatism as a helpful exercise to prevent the hnnds becoming stiff from the complaint. For persons liable to cramp, paralysis and similar affections of the fingers knitting Is considered a useful exercise. It Is, moreover, valuable not merely as an exercise but for Its effect on tha nerves, and accordingly It Is recommended to women who suffer from Insomnia nnd depression. In certain sanitariums the patients are encouraged to knit and the sight of the flashing needles nnd of the work growing tinder their fingers makes the exerdse both cheering and Interesting.

. «■■■- am P I'liL'liliiiiiliii Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Ry. Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mail 4:49 a. m. No. s—Louisville5 —Louisville Mail, (dally) , 10:55 a.m. No.33—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 2:02 p. m No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m’ No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:25 p. m‘ •No. 45—Local freight. 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (daily). ...* 7:31 a. m. No. 32—Fnst Mail, (daily) : 9:55 a. m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Yes. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. tNo. 38—Cin. to Chicago.. 2:57 p.m. No. 6—Mail a«d Express, (daily)... 3:30 p.m. •No. 46 Local freight 9:55 a.m. No. 74 Freight, (daily) 9:09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. JSunday ouly. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No.' 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fhank J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Geu. M’g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell., Traffic M’g’r, CHIOAOO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

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